NOAA NSSL MRMS Gridded SBC Data and SBC Profiles
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.052

Summary
Vertical profiles of the hydrometeor phase diagnosis along the particle size
distribution are contained in this dataset from commercial airports in the
ICICLE (In-Cloud ICing and Large-drop Experiment) domain in tarred and gzipped
NetCDF format. This experimental product is the first iteration and may
contain some artifacts/oddities. This version of the SBC uses a different
method to assign ptop than the horizontal diagnoses (provided separately) and
therefore may not agree with that analysis.The domain covers only the area of
the ICICLE field campaign. No MRMS data are available prior to 5 February due
to the federal government shutdown in early 2019. Any public
presentations/publications using this data must include NSSL as co-author.

NOTE: This is a large dataset. Order limitations are 32GB per order, so please
check file sizes when ordering. IMPORTANT: For each order, unzip and untar the
files in a separate directory with sufficient size (1-2TB) to ensure that
files are not overwritten. Some of these files may untar/unzip to hundreds of
Gigabytes.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 570.052
 * doi:10.26023/Q4YD-X7E3-VS13
   https://doi.org/10.26023/Q4YD-X7E3-VS13

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Reeves, H. 2021. NOAA NSSL MRMS Gridded SBC Data and SBC Profiles. Version
 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/Q4YD-X7E3-VS13 Accessed 23 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * ICICLE: In-Cloud Icing and Large-Drop Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/ICICLE

Additional information
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Radar

Platforms
 * Fixed Observation Stations

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * NEXt Generation RADar (NEXRAD)
 * Polarimetric Radar
 * Radar

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > HYDROMETEORS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS > CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE

Documentation
 * SBC-RALA_README.txt [3 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54BB175774E63/SBC-RALA_README.txt
 * sbc_profile_README.txt [4 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54BB1757738EA/sbc_profile_README.txt

Restrictions
 * authorization required

Related links
 * companion: 570.053: NOAA NSSL MRMS Seamless HSR Data
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.053
 * companion: 570.058: NOAA NSSL MRMS Merged Reflectivity QCComp, UnQCBase and UNQCComp
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.058
 * companion: 570.056: NOAA NWS MRMS Data from 23 February 2019
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.056
 * companion: 570.054: NOAA NSSL MRMS MergedKdp, MergedRhoHV, and MergedZdr Data
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.054
 * companion: 570.055: NOAA NSSL MRMS Base and Merged Reflectivity DPQC
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.055
 * companion: 570.051: NOAA NSSL MRMS Bright Band Top and Bottom Heights
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.051
 * companion: 570.050: NOAA NSSL MRMS 3-D Beamwidth Dataset
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.050
 * companion: 570.057: NOAA NSSL MRMS 0C, -5C, -10C, -15C and -20C Reflectivity Data
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.057
 * homepage: ICICLE Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/icicle
 * info: Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) Operational Product Viewer
   https://mrms.nssl.noaa.gov/
 * info: ICICLE Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/icicle-data-policy
 * info: ICICLE Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/icicle/tools/missions
 * info: Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System (MRMS)
   https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/mrms/

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2019-02-06 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2019-03-07 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 55.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 20.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -130.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -60.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Heather Reeves <heather.reeves@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2990

Additional contact information
 * author: Heather Reeves <heather.reeves@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2990

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.052?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/570.052?format=isotc211